Reflections

Not long ago I came to the faith albeit after a long struggle with self, and little did I know that, a simple decision to lay down my life at the cross and accept Christ’s sacrifice and saving grace would lead me into a life filled with many spiritual adventures. 

Here is my story….

I was born  in a family of four, and being a second child shielded me from many responsibilities, so I grew up a laid back fellow. I would say I was born in a traditional Christian home but all I knew about Christianity was to go to church on Sunday, participate in whatever activity there was and forget everything on Monday, all to start the circle again on Sunday-a Sunday type of Christian so to say.

You know without a personal relationship with God; you will take everything for granted…life is just, life. You don’t have any sense of urgency in you; no desire to see others coming to the faith like you. All you want is safe Christianity.

This is what I leant the harder way, and you know how painful it is to learn things the harder way. When God calls you there is no denying, no matter how you try to run away, when your name is called in the heavenly throne room you throw caution outside the window and plunge yourself into the deep. That’s the story of my life. God did not call us to a life of peace, the devil has no rest, why should we. This is war, good verses evil, the devil and his cohorts verses God and His children.

Yes peace might be inside us but outside is war, outside are wolves ready to strike, remember we are still in the world though we are not of the world John 15 : 18-20 "If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you. 19"If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you. 20"Remember the word that I said to you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also.…

I have come to know and understand God more through His grace. Growing up, all i knew about God was He is a Father and should be respected as such, having coming to a personal walk with Him I understood Him to be a personal friend and companion for life. I have come to understand that knowing God is not just enough. Most of us know Him so much we know who He is, we know what He wants but have never understood why and how part.

There should be a knowing with understanding in our relationship with God. Understand His workings and His being and your walk with Him becomes an easier one.1 John 5:20. And we know that the Son of God has come, and he has given us understanding so that we can know the true God. And now we live in fellowship with the true God because we live in fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the only true God, and he is eternal life.

Paul adds in Ephesians1:17 and 18 ; 17 I cease not to pray…that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,…

The spirit of wisdom and of revelation are a must have, you can’t function fully as a Christian without these free gifts of the spirit. God has laid up spiritual blessings for us in his Son the Lord Jesus; but requires us to draw them out and fetch them in by prayer. 

Even the best Christians need to be prayed for: and while we hear of the welfare of Christian friends, we should pray for them. Even true believers greatly want heavenly wisdom. Are not the best of us unwilling to come under God's yoke, though there is no other way to find rest for the soul? Do we not for a little pleasure often part with our peace? And if we dispute less, and prayed more with and for each other, we should daily see more and more what is the hope of our calling, and the riches of the Divine glory in this inheritance. It is desirable to feel the mighty power of Divine grace, beginning and carrying on the work of faith in our souls. But it is difficult to bring a soul to believe fully in Christ, and to venture its all, and the hope of eternal life, upon his righteousness. Nothing less than Almighty power will work this in us. 

It is Christ the Saviour, who supplies all the necessities of those who trust in him, and gives them all blessings in the richest abundance. And by being partakers of Christ himself, we come to be filled with the fulness of grace and glory in him. 

Job 42:5 My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.We all need God and my prayer is one of these days God will open the eyes of your heart to see Him clearly. To be continued……